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meant by dwarfs, much the same as we do by fairies.”
Olaus Ver. ad Her. Sag. p. 44. 45.
Hickes Thes. tom. 2. p. 311.
III.
“As to what is said in the second stanza, of their being buried under the roots of trees. It may be observed, that the northern nations, in the first ages, usually burnt their dead: afterwards they buried them under a barrow or hillock of earth, &c. but no author mentions the roots of trees, as chosen particularly for the place of interment. There is, indeed, one instance of this to be found, in a fragment of an ancient Runic poem preserved in the history of Snorro
